A 15-year-old boy jailed for causing the deaths of five people when he ploughed a stolen car into a tree must live with his actions for a lifetime, a judge said.

Ellis Thornton-Kimmitt, 12, his brother, Elliott, 14, Darnell Harte, 15, Robbie Meerun, 24, and Anthony Armour, also 24, died when the Renault Clio they were all travelling in crashed in Stonegate Road in Leeds.

The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court to four-and-a-half years’ detention and was disqualified from driving for seven years and three months.